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Salud Pública de México
Print version ISSN 0036-3634
Abstract
SHAMAH-LEVY, Teresa et al. Prevalence and susceptibility to obesity in a national sample of school-age children and adolescents in Mexico. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2020, vol.62, n.6, pp.725-733. Epub Aug 15, 2022. ISSN 0036-3634. https://doi.org/10.21149/11552.
Objective:
To estimate the obesity prevalence among school-age children in Mexico and define possible risk-associated factors.
Materials and methods:
Data from National Health and Nutrition Survey (Ensanut 2018-19) was used. Information from 6 268 school-age children and 5 670 teenagers was obtained. Logistic regression models were estimated in order to study the relationship between overweight and obesity (OW+O) and sociodemographic variables, OW+O condition in their parents, health, dietary and healthy behaviors variables.
Results:
OW+O in school-age children and teenagers is associated with the presence of OW+O in their mothers (p<0.001), more time spent in front of a screen and belonging to a middle wealth conditions index; a negative association was found for dietary fiber consumption. In teenagers with obesity, the odds for depression showed an increase.
Conclusion:
It is important to identify the predisposing and risk factors and the causes behind obesity in children in order to design integral prevention strategies.
Keywords : obesity; overweight; schoolchildren; adolescents; national surveys.